• Anaerobic metabolism
• Archaea
• Prokaryotic cell biology
• Biotechnology
• Biology of yeast and fungi
• Computational microbiology
• Environmental microbiology and ecology
• Infection biology
• Membranes and transport

• Microbial biodiversity and evolution
• Microbial communities
• Phage biology
• Prokaryotic physiology and metabolism
• RNA biology
• Signal transduction and gene regulation
• Systems and synthetic microbiology
• Open Topics